Byrd (surname)
Not to be confused with Bird (surname).
Byrd is a surname of English origin; notable people with this surname include:
- Bill Byrd (1907–1991), baseball player
- Bobby Byrd, (born 1934) funk musician
- Butch Byrd (born 1941), AFL Hall of Fame
- Cathal Byrd (born 1986), Irish weightlifter
- Charles Willing Byrd (1770–1828), first sitting justice on the United States District Court of Ohio
- Charlie Byrd (1925–1999), jazz guitarist
- Chris Byrd (born 1970), heavyweight champion in boxing
- Curley Byrd (1889–1970), American university administrator, educator, athlete, coach, and politician
- Darryl Byrd (born 1960), American football player
- David Edward Byrd, (born 1941), an American graphic designer and painter
- Dennis Byrd, (1966–2016), American football player
- Donald Byrd (1932–2013), jazz trumpeter
- Harry Byrd (baseball) (1925–1985)
- Harry F. Byrd (1887–1966), U.S. senator for Virginia
- Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (1914–2013), U.S. senator for Virginia from 1965 until 1983
- Henry Roeland Byrd (1918–1980), blues musician
- James Byrd, Jr. (1949–1998), murder victim
- Jairus Byrd (born 1986), American football player
- Jerry Byrd (1920–2005) Lap steel guitarist
- Joseph Byrd, rock musician
- Jonathan Byrd (musician) (born circa 1970), folk singer-songwriter
- Leo Byrd (born 1937), American basketball player
- Marlon Byrd (born 1977), baseball player
- Mary E. Byrd (1849–1934), American educator
- Mary Willing Byrd (1740–1814), second wife of Colonel William Byrd III
- Paul Byrd (born 1970), baseball player
- Petri Hawkins-Byrd, bailiff "Byrd" on the Judge Judy TV series
- Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), admiral, polar explorer, aviator
- Robert C. Byrd (1917–2010), Democratic senator for West Virginia
- Sammy Byrd (1910–1981), baseball player for the New York Yankees and PGA Tour golfer
- Steve Byrd, English rock musician
- Tracy Byrd (boxer) (born 1964)
- Tracy Byrd (born 1966), country singer
- William Byrd (1540–1623), English composer
- William Byrd I (1652–1704), member of colonial Virginia's House of Burgesses
- William Byrd II (1674–1744), founder of Richmond, Virginia
- William Byrd III (1728–1777), member of the House of Burgesses, and military officer
- Winifred Byrd (1884–1970), American concert pianist
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